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Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smithies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ..., 1689
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Chapter 4: Proving that Baptism is Dipping, Plunging, or Burying the whole Body in Water, In the N…
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But because there are not a few who do not vulgarly teach this Doctrine, it will not be superfluous to produce some of these innumerable Testimonies, that I may not seem to speak without Book; and first let us begin with St. Paul, Know ye not that so many of you that have been baptized into Christ, 1were baptized into his Death? therefore we are buried with him in Baptism into Death, 2&c. Else what shall they do that are baptized for the Dead, 3if the Dead rise not at all? As if he had said, if there be no Resurrection, Why are we baptized? In vain does the Church use the Symbol of Baptism if there be no Resurrection. The like Testimonies frequently occur among the Fathers—* that believing in his Death we may be made Partakers of his Resurrection by Baptism. Baptism was given in Memory of the Death of our Lord; we perform the Symbols of his Death and Resurrection in Baptism.
- 1Rom. 6. 3, 4.
- 2Col. 2. 12.
- 31 Cor. 15. 29.
- *Ignat. Epist. ad Tral. id Epist. ad Philadelp.
We know but one saving Baptism, in regard there is but one Death for the World,1